Books On Information Society
Information Society
Knowledge
Workers in the Information Society Book by Vincent Mosco
Digital
Information Culture: The Individual and Society in the Digital Age Book by Luke
Tredinnick
Digital
Literacy: Tools and Methodologies for Information Society by Pier Cesare Rivoltella
Social
Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues Terry Kidd and Irene
Chen
The
Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares Book by Robert Hassan
Internet
and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age Book by Christian Fuchs
Cybercrime:
The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age Book by David S. Wall
The
Early Information Society Book by Alistair Black, Dave Muddiman, and Helen Plant
Information
and Communication Technologies in Rural Society Book by Rusten/ Skerrat
Digital
Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society Book by Anthony G. Wilhelm
The
Future of Identity in the Information Society: FIDIS International Summer School,
Karlstad University, Federation for Information Processing)
Past,
Present and Future of Research in the Information Society Book by Wesley Shrum, Keith
R. Benson, Wiebe E. Bijker, and Klaus Brunnstein
Communication
Systems for the Mobile Information Society Book by Martin Sauter
Theories
of the Information Society: (International Library of Sociology) Book by Frank Webster
The
Deepening Divide : Inequality in the Information Society
Book by Jan A G M van Dijk
The
Information Society: A Study Of Continuity And Change. 4th edition
Book by John Feather
Investigating
Information Society
Book by Hugh MacKay, Wendy Maples, Paul Reynolds
Theories
of the Information Society (The International Library of Sociology)
Book by Frank Webster
Mobilizing
the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity
Book by Robin Mansell, W. Edward Steinmueller
The
Information Society: A Skeptical View Book by Christopher May
Cyberspace
Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society
Book by Brian Loader (Editor)
How
the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society
Book by C. John Sommerville, John C. Sommerville
Science,
Technology, And Society: A Sociological Approach
Book by Wenda K. Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissant, Sal P. Restivo
The
Information Society in an Enlarged Europe Book by Soumitra Dutta (Editor), Arnoud De
Meyer (Editor), Amit Jain (Editor), Gérard Richter (Editor)
Information
Society Book by Danniel Bell, Daniel Bell
The
Information Society Reader (Routledge Studentreaders)
Book by Frank Webster (Editor)
The
Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model
Book by Manuel Castells, Pekka Himanen
Digital
Nation : Toward an Inclusive Information Society
Book by Anthony G. Wilhelm
Cybercrime
Vandalizing the Information Society Book by Steven Furnell
Ethical
Global Information Society: Culture and Democracy Revisited (Ifip International Federation
for Information Processing) Book by Jacques Berleur, Graham Whitehouse, Diane
Whitehouse (Editors)
Regulating
the Global Information Society (Warwick Studies in Globalisation)
Book by Christopher T. Marsden (Editor)
Overload
and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society (Contributions in
Sociology) Book by Orrin E. Klapp
Towards
the Information Society : The Case of Central and Eastern European Countries
(Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung) Book by D. Uhl, G. Banse (Editor), C.J.
Langenbach (Editor), P. Machleidt (Editor)
The
European Information Society: A Reality Check (February, 2004)
Book by Jan Servaes (Editor)
Information
Society Studies (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society) Book by
Alistair S. Duff.
Making
the Information Society: Experience, Consequences, and Possibilities
Book by James W. Cortada
Rewiews:
The
Deepening Divide : Inequality in the Information Society
Book by Jan A G M van Dijk
During the mid 90’s, around the time the Internet became popular, it became apparent
that there was still one critical issue holding back limitless opportunities. Computer
professionals had to find a way to close the gap between those who do not have computer or
Internet access and those who do, also known as the digital divide. Suddenly, hundreds of
conferences of computer professionals, social scientists, and government policy experts
worldwide dedicated themselves to this concern. Then the Internet hype seemed to
dissipate, and observers assumed the digital divide would fix itself.
The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital
divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies, deepening.
Investigating
Information Society
Book by Hugh MacKay, Wendy Maples, Paul Reynolds
Drawing on a rich body of empirical work, it explores three core themes of information
society debates: the transformation of culture through the information revolution,
changing patterns of work and employment and the reconfiguration of time and space in
everyday life. In exploring these, the reader is introduced through case studies,
activities and questions for discussion, to the practicalities of doing social research
and the nature of social science argument and understanding.
Theories
of the Information Society (The International Library of Sociology)
Book by Frank Webster
Theories of the Information Society provides commentaries on all the postwar theories of
the information society--Bell, Schiller, Baudrillard, Giddens and Castells. Interest in
"information" is growing in the wake of the modernity post-modernity debate. The
debate suggests that the Western economic base has shifted from production/manufacturing
to service and information, which has the changed the class structure and political
process.
Mobilizing
the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity
Book by Robin Mansell, W. Edward Steinmueller
This book provides a critical assessment of progress towards the Information Society.
Drawing upon unique empirical data, this book lays the foundation for more useful theories
of the process of change, and more effective strategies and policies for increasing the
benefits from the Information Society. The authors provide insights into the social,
economic, and political forces that are structuring the pathway to the Information
Society-and its consequences for business and individuals in their everyday lives.
The
Information Society: A Skeptical View Book by Christopher May
Counteracts a lot of hype, Reviewer: W Boudville (US)
May supplies a logical and sceptical analysis of advances in information technology (IT),
where these often have been accompanied by breathless claims of generating big societal
changes. He correctly distinguishes between new technology that causes existing social
interactions to be more efficient or faster, and those that make truly new social mores.
For the latter, he suggests that biotechnology may ultimately fall in this category. Its
potential for life saving or life extending advances may cause far reaching social
upheaval.
Cyberspace
Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society
Book by Brian Loader (Editor)
Politicians, policy makers and business gurus are all encouraging us to join the
information superhighway at the nearest junction or risk being excluded from the social
and economic benefits of the information revolution. Cyberspace Divide critically
considers the complex relationship between technological change, its effect upon social
divisions, its consequences for social action and the emerging strategies for social
inclusion in the Information Age. The contributors cover such themes as human interaction,
ethical behavior, and the growing disparity between the information rich and the
information poor.
How
the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society
Book by C. John Sommerville, John C. Sommerville
A brilliant diagnoses of the modern news industry. There is rarely a story of true
urgency, in a balanced culture, the news would not be daily. According to Sommerville
"The only reason for making news daily is to create an information industry."
When we watch tv news, Sommerville argues, we get sound bites that average 20-seconds in
length or less. We watch the news and we mistakenly believe we are informed. But to truly
understand things we need not news but wisdom, which is the ability to see events in a
larger context. Sommerville says that the news as it is served to us, by its very nature,
destroys these larger contexts. His acid test for value is the question: Is this worth
reading again? And he says that, one month later, to re-read a newspaper will reveal it to
be worthless, but to re-read a classic book gives us a much deeper understanding of
things.
Science,
Technology, And Society: A Sociological Approach
Book by Wenda K. Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissant, Sal P. Restivo
Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the
emergent field of science, technology, and society studies and its implications for
today’s culture and society. Written in an accessible style, and designed especially
for students, the book emphasizes the sociological sciences as the foundation for STS
studies. It opens with a discussion of current STS topics, research tools, and theories,
and tackles some of the most urgent issues on the STS agenda: power and culture, race,
gender, colonialism, the internet, cyborgs and robots, and biotechnology.
Case studies highlight particular ideas and their practical application. A glossary and
further reading suggestions complete Science, Technology, and Society, making it an
indispensable introduction to a controversial area of inquiry.
The
Information Society in an Enlarged Europe Book by Soumitra Dutta (Editor), Arnoud De
Meyer (Editor), Amit Jain (Editor), Gérard Richter (Editor)
This book provides a detailed analysis of the state of the information society prevalent
in the European Union in 2004, the year in which 10 new member states gained accession to
the European Union. Based upon detailed data collection and rigorous analysis, the book
presents a benchmarking study of the 10 new member states and 3 candidate countries of the
European Union as compared to the 15 incumbent countries with respect to the development
of their information societies. Using a framework based on the Europe 2005 benchmarking
framework, the 28 EU members and candidate countries are ranked according to their level
of information society development, and then classified into 4 categories. The results
presented in this book are of importance to all managers and companies doing business in
the IT sector in the European Union.
The
Information Society Reader (Routledge Studentreaders)
Book by Frank Webster (Editor)
The Information Society Reader pulls together the main contributions to this debate from
some of the key figures in the field-- Manuel Castells, Daniel Bell, Anthony Giddens,
Michel Foucault and Christopher Lasch.. This authoritative anthology addresses a wide
array of topics and issues, such as: Post-industrialism; Surveillance; Network Security;
Digital Democracy; the Digital Divide; and Virtual Relations.
With a comprehensive introduction from Frank Webster, and section introductions
contextualising the readings, The Information Society Reader will be an invaluable
resource for students and academics studying contemporary society and all things cyber.
Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at City University, London. He is the author of
Theories of the Information Society, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2002).
The
Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model
Book by Manuel Castells, Pekka Himanen
This book takes an international approach by discussing the information society and
overall business environment of Finland. Known throughout the world for its successful
companies and its exceptional rates of innovation, this volume discusses the country's
total transformation in technology, corporate business and education. It creates a
complete model of comparison to other economies. Finally, it discusses Finland's future
challenges as well as what can be learned to enhance an existing society.
Digital
Nation : Toward an Inclusive Information Society
Book by Anthony G. Wilhelm
As our social institutions migrate into cyberspace, the digitally disenfranchised face
increasing hardships. What happens a government office shuts down and is replaced by a
public Web site? What happens when a company accepts only online job applications?
Inevitably, those most in need of the services and opportunities offered are further
marginalized. In Digital Nation, Tony Wilhelm shows us how to build a more inclusive
information society, offering a plan that reaps the benefits offered by the new technology
while avoiding the pitfalls of social exclusion.
In Wilhelm's vision of an inclusive digital nation, everyone can take advantage of the new
technology. With everyone part of the information society, we can revolutionize the way we
educate our citizens, deliver healthcare, and engage in productive work. The result will
be increased efficiency and productivity that will lead to long-term savings of billions
of dollars and an enhanced quality of life as technology expands choice and opportunity.
We can begin to bring this about by expanding access to computers and making it easier to
acquire digital literacy skills. To do nothing -- to turn a blind eye to the promise of an
inclusive technology -- would cost us socially and economically. Digital Nation's call for
action sets the terms for a new debate on bridging the digital divide.
Cybercrime
Vandalizing the Information Society Book by Steven Furnell
It's hard to argue that 20th-century law enforcement authorities had any idea how to deal
with computer-assisted crime. Hoping to help the sheriffs of the new frontier, British
computer security expert Steven Furnell gives a thorough overview of the means and
motivations of their prey in Cybercrime: Vandalizing the Information Society.
As a guide to mainstream conceptions of hacking, viral code, and e-fraud, the book is
invaluable both for the authorities it targets and its discussion of the
antiauthoritarians who want to minimize both cyberharm and electronic oppression. Furnell
makes some excellent points, well worth repeating as they're often ignored: computer
security is still mostly laughable, most bad-guy hackers are less motivated by greed than
other crooks, and traditional law-enforcement techniques are conspicuously irrelevant. For
its topic, Cybercrime is comparatively calm and rational--just what we need to beat down
the hype. --Rob Lightner
Ethical
Global Information Society: Culture and Democracy Revisited (Ifip International Federation
for Information Processing) Book by Jacques Berleur (Editor), Graham Whitehouse
(Editor), Diane Whitehouse (Editor)
Many challenges lie ahead in the development of a global information society. Culture and
democracy are two areas which may be under particular threat. The book reflects on today's
complex and uncertain cultural and democratic developments arising as a result of an
increasingly global, technologically-connected world. In particular it focuses on the
Internet, examining new metaphors for communication, defining the issues at stake and
proposing options, actions and solutions.
Regulating
the Global Information Society (Warwick Studies in Globalisation)
Book by Christopher T. Marsden (Editor)
This collection examines the economic, legal, political and sociological impact of
communication technologies on the regulation of communication and information networks.
Overload
and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society (Contributions in
Sociology) Book by Orrin E. Klapp
This series of essays explores the impact of information on the quality of life in modern
society. Addressing the significance of boredom as an indicator of overloads of
information, Klapp argues that the information society has become boring in spite of
itself. He contends that constant inundation with information has led to nothing less than
the attrition of meaning. Redundancy and noise, Klapp asserts, have replaced resonance and
variety in the modern world. The information society has become entropic rather than
progressive and a deficit in the quality of life has resulted.
Towards
the Information Society : The Case of Central and Eastern European Countries
(Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung) Book by D. Uhl, G. Banse, C.J.
Langenbach, P. Machleidt (Editors)
The workshop provided an overview of the status and perspectives of Technology Assessment
(TA) in the individual countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It also showed the
complexity of creation of space for TA type activities in individual countries - for
independent activity of both experts and the public based on individual responsibility.
The book consists of the final version of the presented papers and new contributions
initiated by the workshop. Moreover, the authors reflect the ideas and incentives sounded
in the discussions. The book is addressed to researchers in the fields of social science,
humanities, information technology and technology assessment in particular. It may also be
of interest to policy-makers and the wider public concerned with the information society.
Making
the Information Society: Experience, Consequences, and Possibilities
Book by James W. Cortada
Dr. Cortada demonstrates how the values and behavior of the information age are firmly
rooted in hundreds of years of Western culture. He also illuminates the complex chain of
experiences, consequences, and new possibilities that made the information age a reality,
and continue to drive it forward today.
Making the Information Society illuminates the complex chain of experiences,consequences,
and possibilities that launched the information age in the U.S., and drive it onward
today. Dr. James Cortada shows how Americans haveleveraged information technolog.
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